Category: Business Analysis

Writing Industrial Strength Requirements Using the IEEE Checklist

The industrial strength IEEE well-formed requirements checklist found in IEEE Standard 830-1998 allows us to write well-formed requirements at any level of detail. However, it is one thing to recite the elements in the list and quite another thing to understand and consistently apply them to your requirements writing efforts. Let’s step through each element […]

Business Analysis and the BABOK®

The set of generally accepted best practices defined by the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) Version 2.0 provides a business analysis framework defining areas of knowledge, associated activities and tasks, and the skills required to perform them. The scope of this standard covers pre-project activities, the full project life cycle and the final product’s […]

Building a Business Analysis Work Plan

I was kicking off a requirements development effort a while back when the project manager asked me for my Business Analysis Work Plan. My what? My BAWP? Sounds like some earned value variable run amok. Seriously, though, there is such a thing and it is becoming more common on projects that recognize the value that […]